My friend asked me how many people on tumblr really watch Star Trek on a regular basis.

Reblog for Star Trek.

Ignore for a soul-crushing sense of being alone in the universe.

Premiere content.

It's cause you're always balduring that damn gate...three

@cosmic-ghost-rider

colorblindness check! make sure you can see all of the shapes in the circles; if not, that might mean you've lost some of your ability to see color!

"are you wearing the-"

the snoots? yeah i am

@trufflesmushroom

verdict: crime against humanity that i dont own them right the fuck now. horrific and terrible and they should not even exist and i need them

c'mon barbie let's go !

i can be trusted on a nature walk i promise. i promise i will stay on the trail and will not run off into the forest never to be seen again i promise

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.

That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.

Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.

Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”

[image transcript:

Voting as Fire Extinguisher

When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember:

there are children inside.

—Kyle Tran Myhre. end id]

I think that Cillian Murphy Scarecrow and Robert Pattinson Batman could make out sloppy style. just btw. compelling stuff.

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I need to see BDSM haters go on rants about the evils of capsaicin

It’s ridiculous to believe that anyone truly enjoys eating spicy food, capsaicin literally evolved as a deterrent to keep mammals from eating it… oh you “like” eating spicy food?? You “like” crying and your nose running at the table while you’re trying to just enjoy dinner? Just admit you have brain rot from watching too many episodes of Hot Ones and go…

I would never let someone eat spicy food in front of me… like that’s literally a chemical irritant that burns your tissue, anyone who would willingly let their partner—let alone ASSIST THEIR PARTNER!!!—in this act of obvious self-harm is an abuser. If I was on a date with someone and they ordered Sichuan hot pot I would simply get up and leave.

I don't normally make "political" art like this, but after recent events I felt I had to say something

This is my plan to get out of long term unemployment. While the course may look like an odd choice it has good segments on the business parts of being an artist, and visual storytelling is what I'm trained on. Unfortunately I'm not eligible for student loans, so I had to borrow from my parents for daily neccessities (the course and my housing is free). Unfortunately they both just fell ill, and at least one of them will be hospital bound for the foreseeable future. I'm now both stressed out about their health and eaten alive by my bills. Donate by buying any art in the shop and pay €2 (roughly the same in $) or more. I will update my shop with new art regularly.

https://ko-fi.com/marthacrimson/goal?g=14

Will I set up monthly memberships and/or commissions? Right now I only have brain power for my studies, my parents, and keeping this crowdfund alive. I may do monthly memberships later on this year. (After spiffing up the ko-fi page.) For now I'll regularly add art to the crowdfund, so stay tuned!

staying close w people long distance really is about the mundane stuff. i get texts like "made quesadillas" "spilled mop water all over the floor :(" "lady on the bus has not one not two but three tiny dogs in her purse" andits like wow. i love you more than words can express

happy 100k to the realest post ive ever made

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